Ciao Tutti,
Hey everyone thanks so much for the the love and support, sorry I've been kinda bad at writing this last little bit. Mom i hope you can figure out the pictures if i need to send the others a different way next time i can.

Bailey i CANNOT believe your having a BOY!!!!!!!!AUGURI!!!!!!!!!You have to name him – Thor- or Giagantor- or maybe Massemiliano! Hahaha oh man that's awesome!

And what in the world, Anziano Bennett is ENGAGED?!!? WHAT!!!! That is nuts! Everything is changing so fast its so weird, cus in my mind everyone is kinda frozen in time to how i left them.

WOW..... Well I've been super duper busy these last 2 weeks and have been having a blast! SO here we go.... k, so 2 weeks ago i went to Rome for my 3 month conference and it was 2 days long. We got to stay at the Villa and enjoyed trainings all day long and Sister Acerson's incredible cooking. That conference seriously changed my mission, i learned so much!

This last week we met an incredible family and they are from Argentina originally. Well we started teaching them and now were teaching all their neighbors and other friends and family members. They all live out in a kinda far away city and because no out there had really seen missionaries before they all wanted to know what we are all about. We started our lesson the first time we were there with only 2 people in front of us and by the end there were 14 people all gathered around us listening and wanting to know more. Its a Gold mine!!!! The only hard thing is, is its super hard for everyone to come all the way to Pescara for church. Train tickets aren't cheap. If we can play our cards right with teaching this little village we might be able to start a branch which would be SOOOO sweet! The field is white already to harvest!!!!

Last week was Zone conference and we had to travel back to Rome,again! Our budgets and wallet's have taken a beating this month on how much traveling we've been doing. Ha ha lets just say were getting pretty creative with our bag of rice we've been living of off these last few days. All of our travel expenses are reimbursable but were waiting for them to go through, so for now were kinda completely out of money. I'm sure everything will go through within the next few days.

This last month the L'Aquila Zone was reopened to the missionaries. So on Monday the Zone leaders came in and we went on an overnight exchange. I got to go with Anziano Loritz to L'Aquila. For those that didn't hear in L'Aquila there was enormous earth quake that absolutely destroyed the city! My exchange was an absolute blast. It was a humbling experience though driving into the city and seeing the destruction.It looked like a war zone from a movie. As we arrived it was pouring rain and so we ended up having to walk to the apartment which was 15 minutes away uphill from the station. We then walked for about 2 hours to the tent city. The people of the city after the earthquake were all moved into camping tents which were put together all throughout the city. The church in the city is very small. They have 12 members and for now they all meet in the living room of one of the tents for church every Sunday. L'Aquila is a super wealthy city and the people are not always the kindest to us. There hasn't been a baptism in the city for 9 years. And the members are really struggling to stay afloat. Their faith is absolutely incredible though, and it is so inspiring to me. SO we spent the evening with the members eating with them and giving them a spiritual boost. The next day was tracking ALL day long in the RAIN! Ha ha ha oh man we walked and walked and walked and the rain didn't let up for a second of it. We were soaked to the bone and were just loving life! I couldn't wipe the smile off my face, The CHURCH IS TRUE! People I'm sure thought we were totally nuts but little did they know that we had the most important message that they would ever hear. That night laying in bed I was totally wiped. We mapped out the area we tracked that day and it totaled up to 24 miles. The great news is though, is that we gave away A Book of Mormon and got 2 phone numbers. Ha ha we were also chased by a German Shepherd for 2 blocks, and I slipped in the mud and trashed my shoes.... I LOVE ITALY! I hope that someday i will have the opportunity of going back and serving in L'Aquila, I love that city. And I'm not being sarcastic at all that exchanged was one of the highlights of my mission I had a blast.

Well I love you all and am so grateful to be serving the Lord. There is no other place I would rather be right now, and no other work I would rather be doing. Stop and look around life is beautiful! And don't forget to count your many blessings, it really will surprise you what the Lord has done!
Love Anziano Koozer